Smart Home Using Andriod Application

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SMART HOME USING ANDRIOD APPLICATION

Dhawade Pooja J
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, Lathkar Y.V
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, Date Purushottam B
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Student, Electronics & Telecommunication Department, IOK, COE Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Assit.Prof, Electronics & Telecommunication Department, IOK COE Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Student, Electronics & Telecommunication Department, IOK COE Pune, Maharashtra, India

Abstract
These Technology advancements have made the implementation of embedded systems within home appliances. Automation of the
surrounding environment of a modern human being allows increasing his work efficiency and comfort. This paper presents a
technology where the user controls the devices through smart phones. Smart Home System has been designed for mobile phones
having Android platform to enable Wi-Fi network which is interfaced with AVR Microcontroller which controls a number of home
appliances like lights, fans and many more using suitable on/off switching devices. Android provides access to a wide range of useful
libraries and tools that can be used to build rich applications. Wi-Fi is an open standard specification for a radio frequency (RF)-
based wireless connectivity technology. The controlling device of the whole system is an AVR Microcontroller. The controller acts
accordingly to switch connected home appliances.

Keywords: Smart Home, Android Mobile Phone, Wi-Fi, AVR Microcontroller.
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1. INTRODUCTION
In nowadays, we must make use of various high-tech tools and
equipments to get our jobs done and make our life
comfortable. And the mobile phone is the inseparable part of
human lives today. With the help of mobile phones human can
done many works related to their civil life.at todays repaired
technology the mobile phone is also become smart one. With
the help of this smart gadget we can make our home smart
one. Some products are commercially available in market
which allows home appliances controlling through internet,
GSM, DTMF, Bluetooth, RFID, and Zigbee. But it lacks the
true sense of real mobility, security and some limited range
of connectivity. We proposed a new technology so that the
ordinary services of the mobile phones can be used to
communicate with and control the home appliances. Here, the
switch board of our regular use is replacing by Wi-Fi module
which will communicate with AVR microcontroller and the
android based smart phone. The home appliances monitoring
and controlling is done wirelessly through Android smart
phone using the Wi-Fi feature present in it. .Android is a
healthy array of connectivity options, including Wi-Fi,
Bluetooth, and wireless data over a cellular connection. The
advantage of controlling mechanism is the devices controlling
and monitoring is available in two modes that is automatic
mode and user mode. In user mode the controlling is done
with instruction given by android based smart phone and in
case the user is not present at home to control the required
appliance the present home owner can use the automatic mode
to control and monitor the appliance. The important part of
this technique is that the appliances run on single processor
and produce required output. Here all the devices which are to
be controlled are connected to the AVR Microcontroller and
suitable switching devices like triac. There are four triac
connected and are controlled automatically for different
appliances like light on-off, fan on-off and speed control,
Temperature and light intensity can be sensed as well as the
PIR sensor can be used for security purpose. New appliances
can be added anytime to the system, which provides for the
reliability of the system.

2. SYSTEM OVERVIEW
Fig 1 illustrates the overall control function of the system. The
projected system works using the smartphone application. The
smartphone application is nothing but an android application
which is the main source for giving the instruction to the Wi-
Fi module. The transmitter of Wi-Fi transmits the data given
by the application using radio waves technology.

The Wi-Fi works on radio waves technology, as the data to be
passed through Wi-Fi is converted into the electromagnetic
signal which is then sent using the antenna. This signal is
received and decoded by the router at the receiving end. This
signal is passed to the controller which is nothing but AVR
controller.

The AVR further operates the received information and
performs operations on the appliances, which are driven by the
driver circuitry. So, following are the hardware requirement
for the system to be developed.




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Fig -1: Functional Block Diagram

2.1 AVR Microcontroller
Microcontroller used is ATMega16L .It is one of the high
performance low power 8 bit microcontroller. Having four
PWM channels. Real-time counter with separate oscillator. It
has 8-channel, 10bit inbuilt ADC. JTAG interfacing with
boundary scan capabilities. It also has 16K Bytes in system
programmable flash. The Microcontroller having six sleep
modes of operation, like Ideal mode, ADC Noise Reduction
mode, Power Save Mode, Power Down mode, Standby mode
and Extended Standby mode. The Controller operates on 2.7
to 5.5V, With Speed Grades of 0 to 8 Mhz. The Controller
having a two special Features, first one is Power-on Reset and
Programmable Brown-out Detection and second one is
External and Internal Interrupt Sources.

2.2 Wi-Fi Module
Wi-Fi is a technology that allows an electronic device to ex-
change data or connects using microwaves in the 2.4 GHz and
5GHz bands. The module is based on the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers 802.11 standards. Wi-Fi is more
suitable for sensitive applications. It has power saving
mechanisms and extended battery life. Support transparent
transmission mode as well as multiple network protocols. The
Wi-Fi module use is embedded based on the universal serial
interface network standard, built-in TCP / IP protocol stack,
enabling the user serial port, Ethernet, wireless network (wifi)
interface between the conversions. The modules integrate all
of the RF components required, removing the need to perform
expensive RF design and test. It simply connecting sensors
and switches to the module I/O pins or UART interface.

2.3 Android Application
Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an
operating system, middleware and key applications. Android
boasts a healthy array of connectivity options including Wi-Fi,
Bluetooth, and wireless data over a cellular connection.
Android provides access to a wide range of useful libraries
and tools that can be used to build rich applications. In
addition, Android includes a full set of tools that have been
built from the ground up alongside the platform providing
developers with high productivity and deep insight into their
applications. [11]

2.4 Driver Circuitary
In electrical circuit driver is the circuit component used to
control another circuit such as high power transistors, triacs,
relays and many other. They are usually used to regulate
current flowing through a circuit or is used to control the other
factor such as other components and devices in the circuit. The
most popular type of voltage regulator IC is the 78XX series,
sometimes called the LM78XX series. These voltage regulator
combine 17 transistor, three Zener diodes, & a helpful of
resistors into one hand by package with three pins and a heat
sink that helps dissipate the excess power consumed by the
regulator as it compensates for increases or decreases in
current draw to keep the voltage at a constant level. The last
two digits of the 78XX ID number indicate the output voltage
regulated by the IC. To use a 78XX voltage regulator, you just
insert it in series on the positive side of the power supply
circuit and connect the ground lead to the negative side. As
this shows, it’s also a good idea to place a small capacitor after
the regulator. The diodes in a bridge rectifier will drop about
3V from the transformer output, So you will need a
transformer whose secondary delivers at least 11V to produce
5V of regulated output. 11V transformers are rare, but 12V
transformer is readily available. Thus, a 5V regulated power
supply starts with a 12V ac transformer that delivers 12V to
the bridge rectifier, which converts the AC to DC And drops
the voltage down to about 9 V & then delivers the voltage to
the filter circuit, which smoothes out the ripples and passes the
voltage on to the 7805 voltage regulator, which holds the
output voltage at 5 V.

2.5 Appliances to be controlled
The appliances which are to be control is the interface with
driver circuitry to microcontroller which are wirelessly
connected to Wi-Fi. The appliances which are to be controlled
is light on-off, controlling the speed of fan as well as on-off.
There are three sensors are used one is the temperature sensor
which sense different values of temperature. The second
sensor is Light –dependent resister sensor is very useful
especially in light/dark sensor circuits. Normally the resistance
of a sensor is very high, but when they are illuminated with
light resistance drops dramatically, allowing current to pass
through it. The third sensor is Passive Infrared Sensor which is
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a device that detects motion by measuring changes in the
infrared levels emitted by surrounding objects. This motion
can be detected by checking for a high signal on a single input
output pin.

3. ACTIVITY DIAGRAM


Fig -2: Activity diagram

The Fig. 2 Shown above represents the activity diagram of
system. It shows the process of flow of activities. Initially
there are two modes of operations one is user mode and
second is automatic mode. The user can access the smart
phone application and gives command to Wi-Fi module. The
Wi-Fi module can processing router with help of
electromagnetic signal which will processing microcontroller.
The switching action can be take place with help of driver
circuitary. The driver circuitry can control and manage the
devices as per there required conditions. Devices can be on-off
and senses by the driver circuitry.

4. CONCLUSIONS
In this paper presenting a new system is design. There are
number of designs are built in this automation field but the this
is the system design which are operated in two different
conditions either smart phone user present at home or other
family members are at home both can be access and control
the appliances. The system is implemented not only for
limited area but is useful for all required area. As per the point
of security there is access code for a Wi-Fi. So the system is
easier to use and protected with the help of access code.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Any accomplishment requires the effort of many people and
this work is no different. I find great pleasure in expressing
my deep sense of gratitude towards all those who have made it
possible for me to present this work. I would like to express
my true sense and sincerest gratitude to Prof. Y. V. Lathkar
my guide, for dynamic and valuable guidance and keen
interest in my paper work. I am grateful to him for giving me
opportunity to publish this work. This paper work is a result of
combined efforts put in by my guide and me. I also extend our
sincere thanks to Head of Department, Electronics &
Telecommunication, Prof. A. M. Maske and all the staff
members who extended the preparatory steps of this paper
work. I am also thankful to Prof. D. B. Salunke for showing
faith in us and providing required facilities.

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